IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC

Logical isolation. Hyper provisioning.

IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for VPC offer fast-provisioning compute capacity, also known as virtual machines, with the highest network speeds and most secure, software-defined networking resources available on IBM. Built on the IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), this developer-friendly infrastructure helps drive modern workloads faster and easier with pre-set instance profiles, rapid deployment and private network control in an agile public cloud environment. Pay-as-you-use by the hour or reserve your capacity in advance for reduced costs.

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Deployment options

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Public, multi-tenant deployment

Choose your profile family, including Balanced, Compute, Memory, Very High Memory, Ultra High Memory, Storage optimized, GPU/AI Accelerators, or Flex for the lowest price per vCPU. Each family profile delivers unique, pre-set virtual server sizes to choose from, with varying capabilities for your workload requirements.

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Dedicated, single-tenant deployment

Carve out single-tenant compute capacity with dedicated host nodes and groups on IBM Cloud VPC within the console, CLI or API. Only users within your account with required permissions can create virtual servers instances on the host.

The IBM Cloud VPC difference

Build a secure space in the public cloud. Accelerate high-production workloads with faster networking performance and deploy globally across multizone regions.

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Hyperscale provisioning

Provision and deploy 1,000 virtual server instances in 4 minutes or less, consistently.

Best-in-class networking performance

Get up to 80 Gbps across general purpose virtual server profiles.

Developer-friendly

Use the REST-based API that’s aligned to industry norms, with easy integration into existing tooling.

Logically isolated

Keep granular control over which IP addresses and applications can access your resources.

Security-rich environment

Effectively maintain your regulated environment with support for KYOK, BYOK and the highest level of FIPS certification.

Cost-effective high availability

Strengthen fault tolerance and help keep key specific workloads from being under-utilized or over-utilized.

Trusted technology partnerships

Support your critical applications across a range of enterprise solutions. IBM Cloud is a trusted consulting and technology partner of SAP and Red Hat.

Choice of AI infrastructure

Deploy your AI models in the cloud with a wide variety of cost-effective GPUs and AI accelerators.

What’s new

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Flex profiles now available

The simplest, most cost-efficient way to run IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC at the lowest price per vCPU

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Burstable Flex profiles now in Beta

Reduce costs and optimize performance with 10%, 25%, or 50% CPU baselines—virtual servers can burst up to 2x at no extra charge.

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Intel® TDX® on 4th Gen Intel Xeon-based IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC is now available in Frankfurt

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See all new updates

Learn about the latest updates to IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC inside our Release Notes documentation – grouped by date.

How it's used

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Choose from GPUs and AI accelerators like NVIDIA H200, Intel Gaudi 3, and AMD MI300X to securely scale gen AI and traditional AI workloads.

Protect your data and AI applications through hardware-based server security with Intel® TDX and Intel® SGX for isolation and integrity.

Client stories

Cadence Designs

Cadence strategically designed its solution with a blend of on-premises and multicloud-based compute resources, including IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC.

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AppLift

AppLift established a highly scalable environment for delivering its service to customers in virtually any location with a hybrid cloud infrastructure, including IBM Cloud Virtual and Bare Metal servers.

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Drugs.com

Drug.com scales their 50 million web visits per month with IBM Cloud Virtual and Bare Metal servers.

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